A Republic, If We Deserve It.
Shortly after the ratification of the Constitution in September 1787, Benjamin Franklin—one of America’s Founding Fathers and arguably the Renaissance Man of them all, given the sheer number of innovations he made across multiple fields—stated that America would be “A republic, if you can keep it.”
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